I have long been infatuated with this genus, since I first saw Mimulus guttatus growing along a mountain trout stream in Western Oregon. I was fly fishing and totally saw the monkey face. When I go more into mountain plants and found Mimulus lewisii, I was like this is a cool genus. Then I found desert plants interesting and I had to go see Mimulus rupicola in it’s habitat. I think Mimulus primuloides is the cutest little think and if you are ever out in Eastern Oregon and see Mimulus cusickii growing in the scoria along the roadside, it looks like miles of pink carpet. Needless to say there are some super cool ones and I do like them all.

This particular offering is from some open pollinated plants that I have been hybridizing back and forth, so that you may get Mimulus Cardinalis, Mimulus lewisii, or Mimulus lewisii x cardinalis. Either way you are getting some great Northwest native genetics that the pollinators in your backyard will love, be they hummingbirds or bees and butterflys.

I’m working with Jan Jeddeloh who has been breeding monkeyflowers for awhile now and we are hoping to release some extra special hybrids in the next few years, stay tuned!

I’m sorry to the botanist with the DNA machine, but I like Mimulus, I have the Monograph of the Genus published in 1928 by Adele Lewis Grant, and even though it’s a printed copy it’s a prized possession and I won’t let the double helix steal that from me. Long live the monkey flower, Long live Mimulus!